Sibyl Creasey and Shirley Fuller have extracted
news articles from two old county newspapers, the Canton Herald
and the Wills Point Chronicle that have been microfilmed. Complete
articles and more are available to researchers in the Van Zandt
County Library of Genealogy and Local History, located in the
courthouse annex in Canton. Copies of these articles are also
available by writing to the Van Zandt County Genealogical Society,
P.O. Box 1388, Canton, TX 75103. When requesting a copy, please
send a check or money order for $2 to cover cost of copying and
postage.

Wills Point Chronicle,
September 10, 1931

"Superintendent G. W. Staton and other
members of the school faculty will spend the balance of this
week at the school buildings enrolling and classifying the students
preparatory to the opening of the public school next Monday,
the schedule being as follows: Thursday morning 11th grade; Thursday
afternoon; 10th grade; Friday morning 9th grade; Friday afternoon
8th grade; Friday morning, 1st to 7th grades.
School will open Monday morning with the following program:
Music by orchestra, Devotional, Rev. A. E. Ewell- P. T. A., Mrs.
Ellis Campbell, Music by orchestra.

"A public offering of the United Gas
Public Service Company's Preferred stock will be made within
a few weeks, according to announcement of company officials today.

"For the information of those interested
the paper is authorized to announce that the Free State Fair
will not be held this fall, it having been decided by those having
the matter in hand to omit the annual fair in Wills Point. However,
special attention will be directed to securing creditable exhibits
for the Dallas fair and products assembled for that purpose may
be displayed in Wills Point during the week before the state
fair.

"K. K. Norton has installed a new
feed grinder and will be equipped to grind and mix feed of all
kinds for his customers, thus making it convenient and economical
to utilize to best advantage the feed crops grown in this section.

"R. M. Majors, residing north of town
on route 3, died early Tuesday morning as a result of a heart
attack, sustained while he was in the lot milking. Funeral services
were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. G. M. Fletcher
officiating. Mr. Majors was 70 years, three months and 19 days
old at the time of his death and is survived by his wife and
four children--Glenn Majors, Mrs. Joe Crow, Mrs. Willie Glover
and Mrs. J. M. Teel. The deceased was a good citizen and held
in high esteem by all who knew him, and his death is keenly regretted
by friends and acquaintances of the family, who deeply sympathize
with the bereaved ones in their hour of sorrow.

"W. M. Brookins of Terrell and Miss
Van Zora Teague, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Teague of this
city, were married in Durant, Okla, Sunday morning. They were
accompanied by C. E. Eitel of Terrell. Mr. Brookins is a promising
young business man of Terrell and Miss Teague was reared in Wills
Point, being a graduate of the high school here and having many
friends who join in wishing for this young couple much happiness.
"We have been requested to announce that there will be a
singing at Rocky Point Sunday afternoon, September 13, beginning
at 2 o'clock.

"G. N. Faulkner returned Saturday
from a three weeks' visit to his old home at Florence, Ala.,
and he reports crops of all kinds are the best he ever saw. While
there he visited the old home place where Uncle William Wells
was born and brought back an apple from a tree from which that
gentleman filled his pockets when a boy. To give an idea as to
how old the tree is, Uncle William was 90 years old his last
birthday. It is needless to say that Mr. Faulkner enjoyed very
much his visit to the old home in Alabama.

"Mrs. Nancy Sewell, who made her home
with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Morris on the Hughes farm north of Wills
Point, died Tuesday and was buried in Howell cemetery. She was
71 years and nine months old. The bereaved relatives have the
sympathy of all.

"CEDAR GROVE; Mrs Grady Smith was
brought home Sunday from the Methodist hospital at Dallas, where
she was operated on two weeks ago. Her many friends are glad
to know she is improving rapidly.-Mrs Wylie Richardson is improving
after having been sick several weeks with typhoid fever.

"LOCAL HAPPENINGS: Mrs. O. C. Tucker
will leave Saturday for McKinney, where she has a position with
the Union Bus Terminal of the Dixie Motor Company as agent. T.
H. Kimbrough and family will
occupy one of Mrs. Tucker's apartments and Fred Smith and family
the other.-Robert Nail and Leroy Box, who have been in the sanitarium
at Terrell for several weeks following operations for appendicitis
were brought home Friday in the Eubank ambulance and
are getting along nicely, having almost completely recovered
from their operations.-Mrs J. B. Teel went to Kerrville last
week for an extended sojourn in that section for the benefit
of her health. Her many friends sincerely wish for her a speedy
and permanent improvement in health."
(This issue contains a lengthly obituary for Mrs. P. B. Funderburk,
nee Beck Ann Snipe, born in Lancaster, S. C. Sept. 4. 1861 and
Mrs. Wincie Duncan, a sister to Bedford and Frank Dees.)